Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI Today, Deputy Assistant to the President and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Senior Liaison Erika L. Moritsugu traveled to Georgia and delivered a letter from Vice President Kamala Harris to community members honoring the eight lives tragically lost in the 2021 Atlanta spa murders.
Co-Chairs of the White House Initiative and President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders issue joint statement to underscore the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to combat anti-Asian hate and gender-based violence three years since the tragic shootings in Georgia.
Are you an emerging translator? The American Literary Translators Association is offering fellowships for their annual conference, taking place in Milwaukee this October! Each year, a number of $1,000 Travel Fellowships are awarded to emerging translators to participate in and give a reading at the conference. Apply by March 8.
The Margins seeks work from writers for an ongoing monthly column on language, culture, and translation from Asia. We consider Asia as an umbrella term that encompasses all of its regions (South, Southeast, East, Central, and North Asia, and SWANA) and the many diaspora communities of Asians all over the world.
Bethany Kim, 21, was elected as the policy and education director of the Nursing Students’ Association of New York State at the group’s convention in late January. She will serve a one-year term.
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin State Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 240, which requires schools to include instructional program information related to Asian Americans and, more specifically, Hmong Americans.